Do I have cervical spondylosis? What can I do? In every clinic, many patients describe the same symptoms to me: I have neck and back pain, I have cervical spondylosis, doctor, what should I do? Here I would like to talk to you about “cervical spondylosis”. Cervical spondylosis in medical terms refers to the neck symptoms caused by degeneration of the bony tissue of the cervical spine, its joints and intervertebral discs, or the symptoms of nerve compression caused by degeneration. The most common cause of neck pain: modern people due to bad habits, often look down at the phone, use the computer, lying in bed watching TV, and keep a long time without changing position, the muscles of the back of the neck are overstretched, and over time, more than the elastic limit of the neck and back muscles, there will be strain, produce inflammatory media, and neck and back pain. This is the most common cause. What should I do if I have neck and back pain? If you have neck and back pain for a short period of time, and you have a bad lifestyle, the most likely cause is a strain on the neck and back muscles. The best way to treat it is to rely on yourself, how to let it go: change your bad habits, relax your neck muscles often, tilt your head back often, apply some anti-inflammatory creams locally with hot compresses to help the recovery of the strain, and generally stick to it for a period of time, the symptoms will heal. What symptoms should I see a doctor for? If the neck symptoms do not improve after the above treatment for a long period of time, or there are symptoms of numbness and pain in the upper extremities; unstable standing of both lower extremities, you need to see a specialist, the doctor can often confirm the diagnosis through a simple physical examination or a simple examination, for serious nerve compression, a high-quality magnetic resonance examination of the neck is the most accurate and best way to clarify the cause. Is massage and acupuncture effective for neck pain? Acupuncture massage is only effective for strain disorders. To consider using acupuncture massage, you have to first rule out the possibility of cervical spine instability and tumors. In addition, if nerve compression exists, improper massage techniques can quickly aggravate the disease and aggravate nerve damage, lessons that are taught every day! What is the best conservative treatment method for cervical spondylosis? : The most common cervical spondylosis is caused by a herniated cervical disc compressing the nerve. Evidence-based medicine shows that, at present, the only effective method is cervical traction, the principle of which is to produce negative pressure on the disc through traction, attracting the herniated disc back to its normal position, reducing nerve compression and thereby reducing symptoms and curing the disease. Should I have surgery for my cervical spondylosis? Three conditions require surgery: 1, the herniated disc compression exceeds 50% of the anterior and posterior diameter of the spinal canal, traction cannot reduce the compression, pain repeatedly, finger inflexibility, 2, the herniated disc compression does not exceed 50%, but the magnetic resonance shows that the spinal nerve degeneration, this situation is often combined with instability, there is a dynamic injury 3, cervical spondylosis caused by cervical spinal stenosis, conservative treatment is not possible to allow the neural canal to expand If there is inflexibility of the hands or unstable walking of the lower limbs or if the nerves start to degenerate, is cervical spondylosis surgery safe? Surgery for cervical spondylosis is minimally invasive, and single-segment decompression can often be completed in half an hour or so, and the patient can move around on the same day after surgery and be discharged in three days.